Total return reinsurer

Chubb, the global primary insurance carrier and reinsurance company, has increased its ownership stake in its strategically important total-return and third-party capitalised reinsurance joint-venture ABR Re, as its importance as a reinsurance provider to the Chubb group continues to grow.

Arch Capital Group Ltd. looks set to secure the outright acquisition of its total-return reinsurance joint-venture Watford Re, after increasing its offer and gaining the support of key shareholder and rival bidder for Watford, legacy reinsurance solutions specialist Enstar Group.

New York based asset manager Rosh Capital Management, LP has raised $600 million from a private family office to launch Rosh Re Ltd., a Bermuda based reinsurance company that will have an investment oriented approach.

Arch Capital Group Ltd. said today that it has reached an agreement with Watford Holdings Ltd., the holding company of total-return reinsurance company Watford Re to acquire the company for $31.10 per share, that values it at roughly $622 million.

Bermuda domiciled re/insurance, run-off and legacy specialist underwriter and investor Enstar Group has made a formal approach to the board of Watford Re’s holding company to acquire the total return focused reinsurance firm.

U.S. and global primary insurance carrier and reinsurance company Chubb, has pre-announced a massive just over $1.8 billion hit from global catastrophes and the Covid-19 pandemic for the second-quarter of the year, setting the stage for other large loss hits from major players.

Chubb, the U.S. and global primary insurance carrier and reinsurance company, is classifying the Covid-19 pandemic as a catastrophe loss event and expects it to have a meaningful impact on earnings in the second-quarter.

Bermuda headquartered, hedge fund backed, global reinsurance firm Third Point Re has begun to benefit from its expansion into property catastrophe reinsurance underwriting, reporting a contribution to its results that helped to lower the combined ratio.

Bermuda headquartered, hedge fund backed reinsurance firm Third Point Re is pivoting further away from the longer-tailed underwriting, more active investment approach of its original strategy, as it embraces catastrophe risk once again.

Dan Malloy is being appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., as Rob Bredahl has resigned. At the same time Manoj Gupta has also left the firm, leading to changes at the top of Third Point Re U.S.